Tom Gilroy
ActorDirectorWriter
07-08-1960
Birthday
Leo
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
24
Total Films
Also known as (male)
Jamaica
Place of Birth
07-08-1960
Birthday
Leo
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
24
Total Films
-
Also Known As (male)
Jamaica
Place of Birth
Creative career
actor
24 Works
producer
0 Works
director
6 Works
writer
3 Works
other
0 Works
Tom's Dilemma
After the molestation of his son, a father struggles with his need to seek revenge and the fear that feeds his inability to do so.6.0
Year:
2016
Houses
A director fumbles through a self-inspired play in an attempt to reclaim his creative integrity.0.0
Year:
2015
The World Made Straight
In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would bind him to the past.5.7
Year:
2015
The Cold Lands
After his mother’s sudden death, a young boy disappears into the deep woods of upstate New York and takes up with an unpredictable and mysterious drifter.5.7
Year:
2013
Dream Boy
The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the brutal reality of the rural south of the United States in the late 1970s.6.1
Year:
2008
The Blue Tooth Virgin
Two writers must face a dilemma that is common to anyone who has ever had an artistic friend: what happens when you have to give feedback, and the news isn't good? Sam, an aspiring screenwriter, and David, a successful magazine editor, have been pals for years. When David doesn't appreciate Sam's latest attempt, it opens a fissure in their friendship, one that spreads through the rest of their lives. Ultimately, both men must reevaluate their motivations to write, their need for praise and validation, and what it means to see yourself as you actually are.8.0
Year:
2008
Wild Tigers I Have Known
A lyrical telling of the coming of age of a 14-year-old boy who learns to cope with his new found sexuality and his unrequited love for the cool kid in school.5.8
Year:
2006
Sweet Land
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.6.3
Year:
2005
Shooting Vegetarians
Neil, a punk rock vegetarian, is being forced to go into the family butcher business. He decides to save the world instead.4.0
Year:
2005
Everyday People
The closing of a local restaurant concerns a number of employees who've dedicated their lives to the eatery6.3
Year:
2004
Harry + Max
Harry is a 23-year-old former boy band idol who is watching his younger brother Max, 16, follow in his footsteps. Harry has detoured on his way to a Japanese concert tour to escort Max on a long-promised camping adventure. Their trip begins on a note of camaraderie but quickly turns serious as old wounds resurface, forcing them to come to terms with their dysfunctional past--Harry's drinking problems, his disconnection from the family, and, most of all, his relationship with Max and the emotional dependency that keeps them from moving into adulthood.5.6
Year:
2004
Series 7
A reality TV program selects six contestants to participate in a free-for-all, no holds barred deathmatch, where they must skillfully outwit and kill each other in order to be the last person alive.6.3
Year:
2001
Bread and Roses
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.6.3
Year:
2000
On the Run
Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night in New York that will change both their lives forever.5.3
Year:
1999
Claire Dolan
A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother's death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby.5.8
Year:
1998
Lulu on the Bridge
This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy, whose life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.5.9
Year:
1998
Spark
Byron and Nina, a young African American couple, are driving from Chicago to Los Angeles, where Nina plans to start college, when they are forced to stop in a small, desert place just this side of a ghost town. Unaccustomed to confronting racism and bigotry on the scale preserved in this rural anachronism, Byron's confrontational response to slurs, epithets and threats quickly leads to a fight for survival -- and the Chicago couple is alone and outnumbered.6.3
Year:
1998
Inside/Out
Against the barren wintry backdrop of a psychiatric hospital, inpatients and authority figures drift through turgid psychological states. We meet the artist Jean and his lover Monica, patients of the facility, and several characters circling its periphery: a guard, an Episcopalian priest, and a church organist. Minimalizing dialogue and plot intricacy, Tregenza concedes only kernels of information, demanding that the viewer breathe dimensionality into his archetypes. Acting out primal instincts of lust, envy, fear, and love, subjects teeter vulnerably on the brink of sanity and insanity, freedom and repression in their attempts to navigate their existence.7.5
Year:
1997
Ratchet
Having missed several deadlines, and with the studio's attorneys hassling him, screenwriter Elliot Callahan (Tom Gilroy) takes the advice of his agent and rents a beachside house on the island Nantucket to find the peace and quiet he needs to get the creative juices flowing. There he meets the seriously intense Henry Carver (Matthew Dixon), who's written a screenplay he wants Callahan to read. Before long, Callahan suspects that Henry might be a serial killer writing about himself and that his screenplay is worth plagiarizing.4.0
Year:
1996
Girls Town
The death of a friend galvanizes three high school young women to reassess their friendship and their lives.6.1
Year:
1996
Land and Freedom
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.7.3
Year:
1995
Postcards from America
Inspired by the autobiographical writings of David Wojnarowicz, "Postcards From America" chronicles the abuse the artist suffered as a child at the hands of his father and his subsequent running away to New York to become a street hustler.3.8
Year:
1994
A Matter of Degrees
Max can't face his yuppie future. Graduation's only weeks away and he's having second thoughts. Inspired by the campus radio station, he decides to get a little crazy.4.3
Year:
1991
Arena Brains
A short film by painter-turned-filmmaker Robert Longo, "Arena Brains" is a series of interlocking vignettes set in and around the art world of 1980s New York City, satirizing the neuroses and eccentricities of this milieu.5.0
Year:
1987